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MT HISTORICAL 225 N ROBERTS HELENA. MT 59601
SUB EXP SOC 1 ETY
POPLAR SHOPPER
THY
500 Hon3
MAY 9, 1996
POST OFFICE BOX 668 POPLAR, MONTANA 59255 PHONE: 768-3433
BULK RATE
U.S. POSTAGE PERMIT #4
%PY Mother's LW
Garfield & Smith set up Meeting with Rockwell International
Chuck Garfield, of A & S Industries and Leonard Smith of the Montana Indian Manufacturing Network are the two that made contact and arrangements with Rockwell International and other Manufacturing Firms to visit the' Fort Peck Reservation, Poplar, Wolf Point, Fort Peck Dam and so forth.
VA Proposes Cut at Miles City
All 212 employees of the Miles City Veterans Medical Center, Including a dozen at the Billings outreach clinic, received notices Thursday of a potential reduction In force within 60 days.
Miles City VAMC Director Richard Stanley said he doesn't know and couldn't estimate how many employees actually will be laid off. He said those questions probably can't be answered until June.
In a telephone interview from his office in Miles City Thursday, Stanley said the potential for layoffs is related to overall VA budgets restraints, and to reallocation of services.
The 1996 VA budget will give the Miles City Veterans Hospital $13 million for all operations - about the same amount as in 1995.
Because there is no adjustment for inflation, the VA expects to have 3 percent to 6 percent less to spend in "real dollars," Stanley said, adding that the hospital in Miles City and the clinic in Billings have seen increases in the number of veterans served. (The overall rate of price inflation was 2.7 percent for Montana last year.)
At the same time, the VA is considering reallocating resources to expand services to veterans in Billings. The Miles City VA has proposed adding services, including radiology, lab, psychiatry and outpatient surgery in Billings.
"Our medical center has proposed this to serve a larger number of veterans," Stanley said.
He said the eight hospitals in the Veterans Integrated Service Network of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah are being directed to serve veterans in "patient population centers."
In the Miles City VAMC's area, Yellowstone County is the population center. According to a 1990 survey, 13,954 veterans resided in Yellowstone County - more than in any other county in the service area, which had a total of 42,934 vets. The same survey found that 1,526 veterans lived in Custer County.
The entire eastern portion of the service region from Custer County to WilUston, N.D., is home to about 13,000 veterans - the same number as in Yellowstone County alone, Stanley noted.
Last fall, the VA reported that the Billings outreach clinic was seeing 25 to 40 patients a day. Its service are limited to primary care, and making referrals for other services in Miles City or at out-of-state VA facilities. Every week, 25-50 veterans make the five-hour round trip from Billings to the Miles City Hospital for tests or other treatment.
Vans also take veterans from Williston, Glasgow, Olendive and Sidney to Miles City. Williston veterans make the longest trip, but Billings is the busiest.
Prescription medicines needed for Billings patients are dispensed from the pharmacy in Miles City, and surgery for veterans is performed at Holy Rosary Hospital in Miles City. No surgery is performed at the VA medical center.
Although the Miles City VA has proposed putting' mora services in Billings for veterans, no decision will be made until a June meeting of a task force for the four-state VA network. If mora veterans services become available in Billings, they could be provided at a freestanding center on or contracts with local providers. Stanley said those decisions have yet to be made.
He said the VA also will "look at access points" for
Cont. on pg. 8
Northeastern Montana Shriners
The Northeastern Montana Shriners is holding a Crippled Children's Screening Clinic, Saturday, May 18th at 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon at Listrud Clinic in Wolf Point, MT.
For appointments for FREE
Examinations call 653-1450, 653-1873 or 653-2073 or write Shrine Clinic, Box 818, Wolf Point.
All treatment at Shriners Hospital for Crippled and Burned Children is Free!
MOTHERS
Are Our
BEST FRIENDS
Corporate Executives Tour Ft. Peck Reservation
Pictured L to R: Caleb Shields, Ft. Peck Tribal Chairman; Doug Finley, Representative of Unisys; Phyllis Thompson, Metrica; Charles Hairwell, Representative of Allied Signal; Dave Fraser, NASA; Dr. Jill Fabricant, NASA; John Lacewell, Rockwell International; Dallas O'Connor, Mayor City of Poplar & President of Poplar Chamber.
These Corporate Executives from NASA, Rockwell International, Metrica, Allied Signal, Unisys toured Poplar and Ft. Peck Reservation on Saturday, May 4th through Tuesday, May 7th. They toured A & S Industries, West Electronics and other Tribal projects in the Poplar area.
They also toured other Tribal Enterprises in the Wolf Point area. On Sunday they toured the Ft. Peck Dam and did some fishing with Dr. Jill Fabricant catching the largest and the most, mostly trout was caught.
Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
How would you like to see ONE WEEK set aside to honor area veterans and their families? Does this sound like an unattainable task? With your help, it can be accomplished!
The Moving Wall is a replica of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C. Veterans organizations, civic groups, and the Glendive Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture have made arrangements to host the Wall in Glendive from July 29, 1996, through August 4, 1996.
A committee has been formed to set up the grounds work for the week. But we NEED your help and input. We want you to be actively involved in planning special events to honor veterans from your area. What would your community like to do to ensure the veterans from your local are honored?
Certain days and times will be set aside for different communities to honor their veterans. We want and need your input so the appropriate time can be given to your community.
We have also contacted Veterans Organizations in your area asking for their help. You may want to get in touch with them to see what they are interested in doing before you begin your planning. Some suggestions are the placing of wreaths, Honor Guards, special memorial services, or whatever your community believes would honor their veterans most appropriately.
If you would like to join us in saluting, the area's veterans, you may contact: Ed Croucher, Eastern Montana Veterans' Home, Glendive, Montana 59330, (406) 365-8855 or John Trangmoe, Glendive Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, Glendive, Montana 59330, (406) 365-5601.
We are hopeful you will join us in honoring all of our area's veterans more on pg. 7 Sincerely,
raiwla Tiwrnn Moving Will G
Chamber News
Minutes Review
By general consensus, U �sa decided to dispense with reading of the April 23, 1996 meeting minutes.
Correspondence Review
1. The Chamber President received an Invitation to attend the grand opening of Montana's Business Information Center In Helena.
2. Montana DOC/Small Business Development Center Calendar of Events and Workshops waa received.
Quest Introductions
Jessie Kirn introduced his wife Ramonas brother and sister-in-law.
Quvtt Intrrtirtteai
1. The Treasurer's report waa given.
cont on pg 7
Management Options for CRP Contracts
by James B. Johnson, Walt E. Zidack and M. Steve Stauber Conservation Reserve Program participants with contracts expiring Sept. 30 have several options available to them.
They can:
�let their contracts expire Oct. 1 --let contracts expire, but initiate land preparation for a fall-planted crop as early as May 1, �extend all or a part of their land under CRP contract for a year. Some CRP participants with contracts that have been in place for at least five years have the option of electing an early release from their contracts and possibly receiving 1996 market transition payments in addition to a pro-rated final CRP payment.
Especially for these CRP contracts with associated wheat bases, in many cases the combined prorated final CRP payments and the market transition payments will exceed the Gnal CRP payments. Any productive use made of this land in the 1996 growing season would be additive to these USDA benefits.
CRP contract holders with contracts expiring Sept. 30 can initiate seedbed preparation for a fall-planted crop on July 1. They do not have to make a formal request with the Farm Service Agency (FSAS). They may need to confer with their local office of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to initiate the development of an approved conservation plan if their lands are highly erodible. They will receive their full final CRP payments in October.
CRP contract holders with contracts expiring Sept. 30 can elect to initiate seedbed preparation for a fall-seeded crop on May 1. They will need to file formal requests to participate in this option with the appropriate county-level Farm Service Agency office. Their final CRP payments will
cont on pg 7
a graduate of the College of Coiffure Art of
Cosmetology, graduated from Montana State University-Billings May 4th with an Associate degree in Arts and Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration.
Julie is the daughter of Jim & Monty Fisher of Poplar.
Her family and several friends attended the Commencement Ceremony in Billings May 4th and a reception hosted by her parents following the ceremony.
Congratulations Juliet
Fisher Graduates
Julie Fisher, a Poplar High School graduate and

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MT HISTORICAL 225 N ROBERTS HELENA. MT 59601
SUB EXP SOC 1 ETY
POPLAR SHOPPER
THY
500 Hon3
MAY 9, 1996
POST OFFICE BOX 668 POPLAR, MONTANA 59255 PHONE: 768-3433
BULK RATE
U.S. POSTAGE PERMIT #4
%PY Mother's LW
Garfield & Smith set up Meeting with Rockwell International
Chuck Garfield, of A & S Industries and Leonard Smith of the Montana Indian Manufacturing Network are the two that made contact and arrangements with Rockwell International and other Manufacturing Firms to visit the' Fort Peck Reservation, Poplar, Wolf Point, Fort Peck Dam and so forth.
VA Proposes Cut at Miles City
All 212 employees of the Miles City Veterans Medical Center, Including a dozen at the Billings outreach clinic, received notices Thursday of a potential reduction In force within 60 days.
Miles City VAMC Director Richard Stanley said he doesn't know and couldn't estimate how many employees actually will be laid off. He said those questions probably can't be answered until June.
In a telephone interview from his office in Miles City Thursday, Stanley said the potential for layoffs is related to overall VA budgets restraints, and to reallocation of services.
The 1996 VA budget will give the Miles City Veterans Hospital $13 million for all operations - about the same amount as in 1995.
Because there is no adjustment for inflation, the VA expects to have 3 percent to 6 percent less to spend in "real dollars" Stanley said, adding that the hospital in Miles City and the clinic in Billings have seen increases in the number of veterans served. (The overall rate of price inflation was 2.7 percent for Montana last year.)
At the same time, the VA is considering reallocating resources to expand services to veterans in Billings. The Miles City VA has proposed adding services, including radiology, lab, psychiatry and outpatient surgery in Billings.
"Our medical center has proposed this to serve a larger number of veterans" Stanley said.
He said the eight hospitals in the Veterans Integrated Service Network of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah are being directed to serve veterans in "patient population centers."
In the Miles City VAMC's area, Yellowstone County is the population center. According to a 1990 survey, 13,954 veterans resided in Yellowstone County - more than in any other county in the service area, which had a total of 42,934 vets. The same survey found that 1,526 veterans lived in Custer County.
The entire eastern portion of the service region from Custer County to WilUston, N.D., is home to about 13,000 veterans - the same number as in Yellowstone County alone, Stanley noted.
Last fall, the VA reported that the Billings outreach clinic was seeing 25 to 40 patients a day. Its service are limited to primary care, and making referrals for other services in Miles City or at out-of-state VA facilities. Every week, 25-50 veterans make the five-hour round trip from Billings to the Miles City Hospital for tests or other treatment.
Vans also take veterans from Williston, Glasgow, Olendive and Sidney to Miles City. Williston veterans make the longest trip, but Billings is the busiest.
Prescription medicines needed for Billings patients are dispensed from the pharmacy in Miles City, and surgery for veterans is performed at Holy Rosary Hospital in Miles City. No surgery is performed at the VA medical center.
Although the Miles City VA has proposed putting' mora services in Billings for veterans, no decision will be made until a June meeting of a task force for the four-state VA network. If mora veterans services become available in Billings, they could be provided at a freestanding center on or contracts with local providers. Stanley said those decisions have yet to be made.
He said the VA also will "look at access points" for
Cont. on pg. 8
Northeastern Montana Shriners
The Northeastern Montana Shriners is holding a Crippled Children's Screening Clinic, Saturday, May 18th at 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon at Listrud Clinic in Wolf Point, MT.
For appointments for FREE
Examinations call 653-1450, 653-1873 or 653-2073 or write Shrine Clinic, Box 818, Wolf Point.
All treatment at Shriners Hospital for Crippled and Burned Children is Free!
MOTHERS
Are Our
BEST FRIENDS
Corporate Executives Tour Ft. Peck Reservation
Pictured L to R: Caleb Shields, Ft. Peck Tribal Chairman; Doug Finley, Representative of Unisys; Phyllis Thompson, Metrica; Charles Hairwell, Representative of Allied Signal; Dave Fraser, NASA; Dr. Jill Fabricant, NASA; John Lacewell, Rockwell International; Dallas O'Connor, Mayor City of Poplar & President of Poplar Chamber.
These Corporate Executives from NASA, Rockwell International, Metrica, Allied Signal, Unisys toured Poplar and Ft. Peck Reservation on Saturday, May 4th through Tuesday, May 7th. They toured A & S Industries, West Electronics and other Tribal projects in the Poplar area.
They also toured other Tribal Enterprises in the Wolf Point area. On Sunday they toured the Ft. Peck Dam and did some fishing with Dr. Jill Fabricant catching the largest and the most, mostly trout was caught.
Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
How would you like to see ONE WEEK set aside to honor area veterans and their families? Does this sound like an unattainable task? With your help, it can be accomplished!
The Moving Wall is a replica of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C. Veterans organizations, civic groups, and the Glendive Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture have made arrangements to host the Wall in Glendive from July 29, 1996, through August 4, 1996.
A committee has been formed to set up the grounds work for the week. But we NEED your help and input. We want you to be actively involved in planning special events to honor veterans from your area. What would your community like to do to ensure the veterans from your local are honored?
Certain days and times will be set aside for different communities to honor their veterans. We want and need your input so the appropriate time can be given to your community.
We have also contacted Veterans Organizations in your area asking for their help. You may want to get in touch with them to see what they are interested in doing before you begin your planning. Some suggestions are the placing of wreaths, Honor Guards, special memorial services, or whatever your community believes would honor their veterans most appropriately.
If you would like to join us in saluting, the area's veterans, you may contact: Ed Croucher, Eastern Montana Veterans' Home, Glendive, Montana 59330, (406) 365-8855 or John Trangmoe, Glendive Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, Glendive, Montana 59330, (406) 365-5601.
We are hopeful you will join us in honoring all of our area's veterans more on pg. 7 Sincerely,
raiwla Tiwrnn Moving Will G
Chamber News
Minutes Review
By general consensus, U �sa decided to dispense with reading of the April 23, 1996 meeting minutes.
Correspondence Review
1. The Chamber President received an Invitation to attend the grand opening of Montana's Business Information Center In Helena.
2. Montana DOC/Small Business Development Center Calendar of Events and Workshops waa received.
Quest Introductions
Jessie Kirn introduced his wife Ramonas brother and sister-in-law.
Quvtt Intrrtirtteai
1. The Treasurer's report waa given.
cont on pg 7
Management Options for CRP Contracts
by James B. Johnson, Walt E. Zidack and M. Steve Stauber Conservation Reserve Program participants with contracts expiring Sept. 30 have several options available to them.
They can:
�let their contracts expire Oct. 1 --let contracts expire, but initiate land preparation for a fall-planted crop as early as May 1, �extend all or a part of their land under CRP contract for a year. Some CRP participants with contracts that have been in place for at least five years have the option of electing an early release from their contracts and possibly receiving 1996 market transition payments in addition to a pro-rated final CRP payment.
Especially for these CRP contracts with associated wheat bases, in many cases the combined prorated final CRP payments and the market transition payments will exceed the Gnal CRP payments. Any productive use made of this land in the 1996 growing season would be additive to these USDA benefits.
CRP contract holders with contracts expiring Sept. 30 can initiate seedbed preparation for a fall-planted crop on July 1. They do not have to make a formal request with the Farm Service Agency (FSAS). They may need to confer with their local office of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to initiate the development of an approved conservation plan if their lands are highly erodible. They will receive their full final CRP payments in October.
CRP contract holders with contracts expiring Sept. 30 can elect to initiate seedbed preparation for a fall-seeded crop on May 1. They will need to file formal requests to participate in this option with the appropriate county-level Farm Service Agency office. Their final CRP payments will
cont on pg 7
a graduate of the College of Coiffure Art of
Cosmetology, graduated from Montana State University-Billings May 4th with an Associate degree in Arts and Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration.
Julie is the daughter of Jim & Monty Fisher of Poplar.
Her family and several friends attended the Commencement Ceremony in Billings May 4th and a reception hosted by her parents following the ceremony.
Congratulations Juliet
Fisher Graduates
Julie Fisher, a Poplar High School graduate and